| Description | Menu book for dinners and lunches for William IV and Queen Adelaide, principally at St James's Palace, occasionally at Bushy House [London] and Windsor Castle. Lists of the guests attending are occasionally provided.
Volume also contains details about other notable meals [i.e. with, or given by, notable guests]: a dinner at the Duke of Cumberland's; the Master of the house's dinner in celebration of Her Majesty's birthday; dinners for the Knights of the Bath; a dinner for the Duke d'Orleans; a few lunches for the Landgravine [Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Philippsthal] and for Princess Louise [of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, niece of Queen Adelaide]; Lord Errol [William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll ]'s dinner.
Menu book provides details of dinners served to members of the King and Queen's Household.
There are accounts of meat and fish consumed; game received and its provenance.
It contains a fair copy, unbound, of the dinner held on 16 May 1832 (not foliated).
Marked 'Ledger 1830 [Oct. '30 - Feb. 34]'. |